Blacksmithing Class:
Saturdays - Pick Your Project
This Class Is Designed To Teach You Blacksmithing Through What You Want To Make!
$65 / Saturday | 10am - 1pm
$65 / Saturday | 10am - 1pm
WE are starting up the forges and Offering Classes again!
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How it Works:
The classes will take place in Whitehall, Mi (near Grand Rapids) on Saturdays all through out the year. You are able to start your blacksmithing experience any month and are able to sign up for as many classes as you want. Your first class will be learning the basics by blacksmithing your own S-Hook. Then you pick the project(s) you want to make (within the same or next tier) and we teach you the required blacksmithing techniques.
The design of these classes are three (3) hour sessions with the intent that you learn some blacksmithing technique. You are able to sign up for as few or as many sessions as you want/need to gain the knowledge needed and/or to finish the project you wish to make. Each Saturday is classified as a separate class and you are not required to take classes consecutively.
Space is limited to 6 students.
Skill Level: Beginning to Advanced
10am-1pm
Age: Adult - 12yr
(11yr and younger: a gaurdian must take class with younger children)
The design of these classes are three (3) hour sessions with the intent that you learn some blacksmithing technique. You are able to sign up for as few or as many sessions as you want/need to gain the knowledge needed and/or to finish the project you wish to make. Each Saturday is classified as a separate class and you are not required to take classes consecutively.
Space is limited to 6 students.
Skill Level: Beginning to Advanced
10am-1pm
Age: Adult - 12yr
(11yr and younger: a gaurdian must take class with younger children)
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Tier 1 - The Beginning
- S Hook |
Tier 2 - The Formation
Examples: - Coat / Key Wall Hook Rack - Rotisserie Spit - Belt Buckle - Drive Hook - Roasting Fork - Spoon - S Hook Chain - Pendant - Blanket Pin - Bracelet - Ring - Candle Holder - Door Knocker - Curtain Holders - Drawer Handles - Chest Hinges - Chest Locks - Tongs |
Tier 3 - The Quenchers
Examples: - Flint and Steel Striker - Knife (less than 8in) - Neck Knife - Scissors - Chisel - Gouge - Curved Knife - Awl - Adze - Screw Driver |
The main purpose of this class is EDUCATION! We teach this through the means of a project. Blacksmithing is a skill that requires PRACTICE! Thus when you are beginning, your project may not turn out perfect. There is always a risk of you breaking, smashing, or melting your project; we are saddened when it happens, but there is no fee reimbursement for such learning.
- Some projects might require additional material fee: ones requiring a lot of metal, cutting edge projects that require high carbon steel, etc.
- Cutting edge projects will take more than one session!
- Limited by Metal and Tools on site
- Please Contact Us a week in advance, with your project idea, to see if it is feasible, to insure we have the required metal, and if there will be any additional material fee
- Please describe project idea in detail: width, length, height. Images and drawings are also welcome
- If no contact is made it will be assumed that Student will make a wall hook or S-hook and will be required to use metal on hand
- No Forge Welding or Welding
